Working across a wide range of materials—from textiles to silver to gold—Blanco continues to challenge tradition and engage viewers in cultural dialogue.
BOCA RATON, FLA.- Internationally acclaimed artist Mateo Blanco, known for reimagining the American flag through innovative and deeply symbolic artworks, unveils his latest creation: “Golden Flag”—now on view at Rosenbaum Contemporary in Boca Raton, Florida. Made entirely with 24-karat gold leaf, Golden Flag presents the U.S. flag as more than a national symbol—it is portrayed as a precious treasure, embodying ideals of strength, unity, and legacy. The luminous surface represents both the richness of American identity and the artist’s personal journey as a Colombian-American. Golden Flag is more than a patriotic gesture—it serves as a bridge between ancestral and contemporary native cultures, from Colombia to the United States. Through this work, Blanco draws connections between his Colombian roots and the evolving landscape of contempor ... More
Exceptionally rare and sought-after Musgo Gasoline ‘Michigan’s Mile Maker’ double-sided porcelain sign with Native American graphic. Estimate: $50,000-$80,000.
DENVER, PA.- Morphy Auctions is revved up and ready for some high-octane competition at their July 16-17 auction, which is packed with 1,226 lots of fine automobilia and petroliana. Bidders can take their pick from 650 outstanding advertising signs, 74 gas pumps, 87 gas globes, 64 product cans, and hundreds of other vintage motoring-related items. Let’s pop the hood and see what’s waiting for collectors at Morphy’s Pennsylvania gallery. Topping the auction highlights is a sign that literally every motorhead dreams of adding to their collection: a round Musgo Gasoline “Michigan’s Mile Maker” double-sided porcelain sign with the image of a Native American chief. Exceptionally rare and sought-after, this sign was issued circa 1920s by the Muskegon Oil Co., of Muskegon, Michigan. As most petroliana collectors would know, Musgo signs of this type started turning up several years ago after being discovered in use as lids on septic tanks. Most were seriously degraded from the ... More
Lot 62 is a sepia-colored carte de visite of Lincoln, boldly signed by him as “A. Lincoln” and PSA/DNA slabbed and graded MINT 9, donated to an 1864 Illinois Union Army fundraising event. Estimate: $100,000-$150,000.
WILTON, CONN.- A signed carte de visite photograph of Abraham Lincoln PSA/DNA graded MINT 9, a document from 1783 signed by George Washington in his role as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army, and a mortgage deed from 1957 co-signed by Marilyn Monroe and her then-husband Arthur Miller are a few of the expected top lots in University Archives’ next online-only auction planned for Wednesday, July 16th, beginning at 10am Eastern time. All 461 lots in the Rare Autographs, Lincoln & Space Items auction are up for viewing and bidding now on the University Archives website – www.UniversityArchives.com – as well as Invaluable.com, Auctionzip.com and LiveAuctioneers.com. Phone and absentee bids accepted. “The July 16th auction will include offerings from collecting categories such as U.S. Presidents, Military -- especially ... More
NEW YORK, NY.- Almine Rech New York, Tribeca is presenting 'Skin of a Storm', Inès Longevial's third solo exhibition with the gallery, on view from June 26 to August 1, 2025. Inès Longevial's oil paintings draw attention to the skin, layered in seemingly smooth swatches of ultramarine, crimson, slate, chantilly, and mauve. These self-portraits—composed mostly from memory, informed by a repository of textures and forms consulted prior to their emergence—are a method of situating the artist in herself and the world. They are painted with urgency and oftentimes completed in one sitting. In this flow-state, the female form becomes a surface littered with subtle footnotes, like an odd wrinkle in a pleated skirt or the deep crease of a dog-earred page. A cropped face with down-turned eyes, a punctuated nipple, and a scapula blooming like an iris are, at a distance, totemic. The stoic sitters are disassociated, fermented. Upon ... More
Antonio Muñoz Degrain, Before the Wedding, 1882. Oil on canvas, 120 x 95 cm. Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado. Acquired in 1884.
MADRID.- The Museo Nacional del Prado continues its efforts to revitalise and highlight the merits of its extensive nineteenth-century painting collections with a new exhibition devoted solely to the painter Antonio Muñoz Degrain (1840–1924). An artist who often operated outside the prevailing trends of his time, Muñoz Degrain is now the protagonist of Room 60 at the museum, where ten works spanning his entire artistic career are on display. The selection includes iconic pieces like Landscape at El Pardo, Mist Rising (1866), recently restored for this occasion and considered the artist’s finest landscape. The painting’s loose brushwork, slightly reminiscent of Velázquez in certain aspects, and astonishing conveyance of atmosphere earned Muñoz Degrain a medal at the 1866 National Exhibition. Works like Memories of Granada (1881) in Room 63 A and View of Granada and Sierra Nevada (c.1915) illustrate ... More
John C. Calhoun. Artist: Francis D'Avignon. Copy after: Mathew B. Brady. Lithograph on paper, 1850. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
WASHINGTON, DC.- The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery is presenting “From Shadow to Substance: Grand-Scale Portraits During Photography’s Formative Years” June 20 through June 7, 2026. Drawing from the museum’s extensive early photography collection, this exhibition traces the evolution of the grand- scale, whole-plate portrait format from the high-end daguerreotype and mid-range ambrotype to the more affordable tintype. The exhibition is curated by Senior Curator of Photographs Ann Shumard. Photographers seeking customers during the medium’s early years, from 1840 to 1860, often urged the public to “Secure the shadow ere the substance fade.” Hinting at life’s fragility, this tagline underscored photography’s ability to capture a fleeting likeness and preserve it for posterity. Portraits in the impressive whole-plate format measuring 8 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches—were among the premier offerings of the nation’s leading ... More
Joe Bradley in his studio, New York, 2025. Photo by Weston Wells.
LONDON.- David Zwirner is presenting Animal Family, an exhibition of new paintings by American artist Joe Bradley at the gallery’s London location. This is Bradley’s second exhibition with David Zwirner since the announcement of his representation in May 2023. His celebrated debut at David Zwirner New York, Vom Abend, was presented in spring 2024. In November 2025, a major survey of Bradley’s works from the past ten years will open at Kunsthalle Krems, Austria. In these new paintings, figurative elements—which Bradley had begun to develop in previous works—emerge as central compositional structures. ‘I have never really felt comfortable calling myself an abstract painter,’ says Bradley. ‘There have always been flashes of figuration in my work. For whatever reason, at this moment, I feel ready to let it all come to the surface.’ 1A group of horizontal paintings feature black contour lines that serve as scaffoldings for swaths of colour, floral blots o ... More
Shannon Finley, Mondrian’s Garden, 2024, Acrylic on linen, 78 3/4 x 63 inches, 200 x 160 cm.
NEW YORK, NY.- Miles McEnery Gallery is presenting Mutations, an exhibition of new paintings by Shannon Finley, on view 26 June - 15 August. Accompanying the exhibition is a fully illustrated digital publication featuring a text by Sebastian Preuss. Over several decades, Shannon Finley has perfected a unique visual language of layered luminous fields and cascading geometries. At first glance, they suggest polygonal blueprints, or nets of three dimensional objects rendered in mid-collapse. Though, there is a glossy, dew-like quality to these works, a roughness around the edges that makes their mechanistic perfection feel strangely naturalistic. Each composition does not feel constructed but cultivated; a self-propagating organism rather than a finalized object. However, Finley’s paintings are anything but spontaneous; they emerge from a highly controlled, months-long iterative process. He begins by building geometric shapes on the canvas, then transfers an image ... More
Frank Frazetta Famous Funnies #214 Buck Rogers Cover Original Art (Eastern Color, 1954).
DALLAS, TX.- When the hammer fell after the sale of Frank Frazetta’s Famous Funnies No. 214 Buck Rogers Cover Original Artin Heritage’s Comic & Comic Art Signature® Auction, the result was out of this world. This magnificent pen-and-ink work, which portrays Buck Rogers sailing through space, sold for $1,035,000 to lead the June 26-29 event to $22,653,352. “Frank Frazetta is universally acknowledged as one of the premier artists in the comic world, and his work has been eagerly collected for decades,” says Barry Sandoval, Vice President at Heritage Auctions. “This piece is widely regarded as one of the greatest comic covers of all time, and the final result certainly validates that.” This magnificent page of original art is the seventh work by Frazetta to bring more than $1 million at Heritage Auctions; previous works by the artist that reached seven figures included the Egyptian Queen Painting Original Art (1969) that brought $5.4 million in 2019 and Frazetta’s Da ... More
LOS ANGELES, CA.- For her first solo exhibition with Hauser & Wirth, British artist Christina Kimeze presents new paintings that explore what she calls ‘the in-between spaces’ where boundaries between interior life and shared experience blur and evolve. Kimeze’s canvases depict ethereal landscapes and enigmatic figures, some solitary and others intimately connected. Tactility is an essential element of these works; made on a foundation of suede matboard, they combine dry chalk, oil pastel and wet paints which Kimeze crushes into the fabric. This technique endows her paintings with an aura of indeterminacy that underscores the mutable nature of her subject matter. The exhibition title is taken from the Thom Gunn poem, ‘The Life of the Otter, Tucson Desert Museum’ (1992), in which the late poet imagines the swift, circular movement of an otter underwater and likens ... More
Ross has been a champion of equity, education and cultural preservation throughout her career.
DALLAS, TX.- Following a national search, the African American Museum, Dallas has named Lisa Brown Ross as its new president and CEO. A respected senior executive with a distinguished career in public affairs, nonprofit leadership and strategic communications, Ross steps into the role previously held by Dr. Harry Robinson, Jr., who led the Museum for more than 50 years. Ross will begin her new role on July 21. “Lisa brings an extraordinary depth of experience and vision to this role,” said Levi Davis, board chair of the African American Museum, Dallas. “Her leadership, storytelling expertise, and deep commitment to African and African American culture make her the right person to guide the Museum into its next chapter.” Ross most recently served as director of marketing and development at Anthem Strong Families, where she led a comprehensive rebranding initiative, grew community partnerships, and helped secure $15 million in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Health and ... More
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DALLAS, TX.- Heritage Auctions announced the return of Erin McGrath to its Fine & Rare Wine Department in the role of Consignment Director. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, McGrath will oversee business development and client relations throughout the Pacific Northwest, bringing to the role a rare combination of auction expertise, luxury trade insight and deep-rooted credibility within the fine wine community. McGrath began her career nearly 20 years ago in Los Angeles, with early roles in wine service and procurement and luxury retail. Her talent and dedication were quickly recognized, earning her a place as one of only five national brand ambassadors for the Bordeaux Wine Council (CIVB), where she helped shape a new generation’s appreciation for the wines of Bordeaux. From 2012 to 2016, McGrath served as a valued member of the Heritage Auctions team, where she played a key role in operations and client ... More
NASHVILLE, TENN.- The Frist Art Museum presents Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston an exhibition that celebrates aesthetic and technical achievements in quilting as well as the lives of their makers. Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Fabric of a Nation is on view in the Frist’s Upper Level Galleries from June 27 through October 12, 2025. Featuring nearly 50 exceptional quilts and coverlets drawn from the MFA’s premier textile collection, the exhibition demonstrates how this art form, considered timeless and democratic by many, has evolved over more than 300 years in the United States and continues to develop today. Made by a diversity of artistic hands and minds, many underrecognized, the medium offers an opportunity to tell an array of rich stories within our shared and complicated history from the 18th century up to 2021. Long ... More
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Norton Museum of Art hosts emerging artist prize winners in studio residencies WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.- Five recipients of a new grant program designed to help emerging Palm Beach County-based artists will receive studio residencies at the Norton Museum of Art, in addition to other benefits. The recipients of the Cultural Council for Palm Beach County’s Emerging Artist Prize are Hodaya Louis of Loxahatchee; Jamie Rodriguez of West Palm Beach; Laura Tanner of Boca Raton; Sitki Dogan of Lake Worth Beach; and Kelvin Small of Jupiter. Part of the Council’s Year of Extraordinary Support, the award is intended for creative professionals across all artistic disciplines and includes a nine-month program focused on professional development. The five recipients will each be paired with mentors who are arts professionals and receive ongoing training and advice. They also receive a $3,000 stipend for materials or supplies and a working studio space for four weeks each at the Norton ... More
Hundreds of Michael Schumacher and Formula 1 items to be offered online LONDON.- An all-new online-only auction has been announced that will feature hundreds of pieces of sporting memorabilia from the likes of Formula 1 World Champions Michael Schumacher, Ayrton Senna, and Lewis Hamilton. The Champions – Schumacher and F1 Legends will open for bidding on 24 July, with lots closing between 29 and 30 July, and will feature more than 280 unique pieces offered entirely without reserve. The varied sale will include everything from race-worn helmets and race suits to pieces of bodywork from historic competition cars, with 35 highlight lots expected to go on display at Gut Kaltenbrunn in Tegernsee, Germany during the upcoming Concours of Elegance Germany on 25-26 July. Several artifacts from the life and career of Formula 1 and Ferrari legend Michael Schumacher will headline the online sale, including a number of historically significant race suits. ... More
Marc Straus opens Renée Stout's second solo exhibition with the gallery NEW YORK, NY.- The gallery is presenting Truth-telling, Renée Stout’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Stout journals constantly. Pages fill with informal doodles, notes, passing thoughts, small, intuitive marks, that serve as points of departure as she experiments with how a simple drawing might shift when translated into the language of painting and sculpture. Rather than hiding this process, she invites the viewer to witness it, to trace the progression from private sketch to public object, and to consider the evolving relationship between the two. While not intended solely as political commentary, many of these works inevitably respond to the climate in which they are made. Especially as she resides in Washington D.C. In a cultural moment where some voices are denied or subsumed, where discourse often resembles shouting, Stout’s practice affirms the necessity of thoughtful ... More
1860 Mormon Gold Half Eagle heads to Heritage's Summer FUN US Coins Auction DALLAS, TX.- For many, any discussion about privately issued U.S. gold coins conjures images of the California gold rush, and with good reason. But the Golden State was not alone as a source of the needed gold. Among the other states that contributed to the growing domestic gold production was Colorado. Discovery of gold in the Centennial State prompted the coinage of a rare gold piece by the Mormon community in Salt Lake City, an example of which will be among the treasures grabbing a share of the spotlight in Heritage’s Summer FUN US Coins Signature® Auction July 17-20. Once believed to have been first coined in May 1859, the 1860 Mormon Five Dollar, AU53 PCGS. CAC. K-6, R.5 offered in this auction is a beautiful example of the rare lion and beehive issue struck between January and March 1860, with a likely total mintage of only 587 pieces. “The desire for financial ... More
New exhibition explores muralist Daniel Manrique's legacy through a fresh lens MEXICO CITY.- A rarely seen dimension of renowned Mexican muralist Daniel Manrique Arias (1939-2010) is now on public display at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM), Xochimilco Unit. Titled "Pica, lica y califica. Daniel Manrique desde la mirada de Carlos Plascencia. Los ñeros en la cultura" (roughly, "Try it, Look at it, and Judge for Yourself. Daniel Manrique from the Perspective of Carlos Plascencia. The 'Ñeros' in Culture"), the exhibition, which opened yesterday, invites visitors to form their own judgments on the artist's broader creative output. The exhibition moves beyond Manrique's celebrated murals to showcase his diverse artistic contributions, largely through the lens of cultural promoter Carlos Plascencia Fabila (1956-2015). Plascencia, also a key figure in the Tepito Arte Acá collective, provides an intimate perspective on Manrique's work. This significant show is a ... More
London Williams debuts "Poetics" at Yossi Milo Gallery, crafting a Black queer utopia NEW YORK, NY.- Yossi Milo announced London Williams’ first solo exhibition with the gallery, Poetics, which opened to the public on Thursday, June 26, 2025. The exhibition is on view in the West Gallery through Friday, July 25, concurrent with solo exhibitions by J. Carino in the East Gallery and Beck Lowry in the Qube. London Williams (b. 1998; Milwaukee, WI) immerses his audience in a constructed world, where he posits a sartorial vision of a Black, queer utopia. Williams’ multi media act of fantasy is speculative, patchworked from domestic interiors that build a new space for him and his subjects to call home. The artist’s realm unfolds room by room, inviting viewers to enter an elliptical world of parlors, dance halls, and dreams. Poetics presents several monumental paintings by Williams that are stretched onto the walls by crystal- tipped upholstery pins. Depicted at near-life size, the ... More
Estate of first U.S. female astronaut in space Sally Ride sells for $145,666 LOS ANGELES, CA.- The Sally Ride Estate Collection chronicling Sally Ride's groundbreaking journey from a Stanford-trained physicist to international icon sold Thursday evening for $145,666 at Nate D. Sanders Auction. The auction featured over 50 lots of historically significant items from America's pioneering first woman astronaut. Dr. Sally Kristen Ride made history on June 18, 1983, when she launched aboard Space Shuttle Challenger as America's first woman in space during mission STS-7. At age 32, she became the youngest American astronaut to reach orbit, operating the shuttle's robotic arm with unprecedented skill and helping deploy two communications satellites. Her second mission, STS-41-G in October 1984, marked another milestone as the first spaceflight with two women crew members. Together, these missions established Ride as a global symbol of women's achievement in science and exploration. Ride's original NASA acceptance letter from 1978, when she was selected as one of six women from 8,000 to ... More
"Symbiotic Wood" exhibition challenges perceptions of nature and materials BERLIN.- The Kunstgewerbemuseum – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin has opened "Symbiotic Wood," a new special exhibition that invites visitors to rethink their understanding of wood, particularly timber affected by beetle infestations and climate change. Inaugurated on Friday, June 27, the exhibition runs until September 21, 2025. "Symbiotic Wood" positions wood as a "more-than-human" material, emphasizing its role in intricate ecosystems beyond solely human utility. The exhibition explores how environmental shifts and monoculture forestry have heightened forests' vulnerability to insects and fungi. Conventionally, beetle-infested wood is considered low-value, but this presentation aims to demonstrate how such "damaged" material can inspire novel design solutions. The interdisciplinary exhibition begins by delving into the scientific aspects of beetle and fungal infestations in spruce forests, examining both local and global impacts. It highlights how these phenomena are intensified by climate ... More
From Berlin chic to American look: Rico Puhlmann's fashion photography on display in Berlin BERLIN.- The Museum für Fotografie has opened "Rico Puhlmann. Fashion Photography 50s – 90s," a comprehensive exhibition celebrating the impactful work of the German photographer. The show, presented by the Kunstbibliothek – Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, offers an in-depth look at Puhlmann's four-decade career, from his beginnings as an illustrator to his rise as a globally recognized fashion photographer. The exhibition, which runs until February 15, 2026, showcases Puhlmann's diverse portfolio, featuring images that graced the pages of major publications like Brigitte, petra, Constanze, and international editions of Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Glamour, and GQ. His lens captured the era's most iconic models, including Cheryl Tiegs, Jerry Hall, Cindy Crawford, and Naomi Campbell, with his work frequently adorning magazine covers and filling glossy spreads. Puhlmann launched his career in his native Berlin as a fashion illustrator, contributing to the city's burgeoning post-World War II "Be ... More
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